The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Embodying.]
   To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a
   body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to
   embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.]
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         Devils embodied and disembodied.         --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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         The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided
         from sin.                                --South.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. i.
   To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
   [Written also imbody.]
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         Firmly to embody against this court party. --Burke.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

embody
    v 1: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil
         wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the
         feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth,
         embody, substantiate]
    2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
       Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
    3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form;
       "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"